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"The efforts of the government alone will never be enough. In the end the people must choose and the people must help themselves" ~ JFK; from his famous inauguration speech (What Democrats sounded like before today's neo-Liberals hijacked that party)

You have a process that is using all your CPU's resources. Hit control alt delete at the same time on XP to view your task manager, select processes and watch it while your using your computer to see what the process hog is.

To resurrect this, the process hog is firefox. As of right now it's using 344,000 KB of memory.

Can some of you tech whiz's explain to me why my computer tends to lag for a few seconds every 10 seconds or so? For example, I'll be scrolling a page and it will stop for a few seconds then start again. Or when watching a video it pauses every few seconds. How can I cure this?

To resurrect this, the process hog is firefox. As of right now it's using 344,000 KB of memory.

Are you using the latest version of Firefox: 3.6.3 or above? Also do you have any Firefox addons/plugins?

"The efforts of the government alone will never be enough. In the end the people must choose and the people must help themselves" ~ JFK; from his famous inauguration speech (What Democrats sounded like before today's neo-Liberals hijacked that party)

I am suggesting the possibility that GotNews.com might be a hoax or troll site making @#$% up. I based that comment on the PJMedia article I linked, whose description and quotes from the killer's FB...